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Cuban pastry. Cuban pastries (known in Spanish as pasteles or pastelitos) are baked puff pastry –type pastries filled with sweet or savory fillings. [1] Traditional fillings include cream cheese quesitos, guava (pastelito de guayaba) and cheese, pineapple, and coconut. The sweet fillings are made with sweetened fruit pulps.
Flan is the centerpiece of Cuban desserts — it’s the ideal dessert after a meat-centric meal. The sweet treat is a custard-like cake topped with a caramel topping that can be made in different ...
Cuban cuisine is largely based on Spanish cuisine with influence from Taino, African and other Caribbean cuisines. Some Cuban recipes share spices and techniques with Spanish, Taino and African cooking, with some Caribbean influence in spice and flavor. This results in a blend of several different cultural influences.
Tres leches is a very light cake, with many air bubbles. This distinct texture is why it does not have a soggy consistency, despite being soaked in a mixture of three types of milk. Variety of recipes refer to trileche as trileče. Its Albanian and Turkish varieties are referred to as trileçe. [3][4]
The most common is the Filipino dessert flan cake or leche flan cake, a Filipino chiffon or sponge cake base with a layer of leche flan on top. [16] [17] [18] It can similarly be baked into steamed cupcakes known as puto mamón, a combination known as puto flan. [19] Leche flan is also commonly used as a topping for the shaved ice dessert halo ...
Cucurucho of Baracoa. Cucurucho is a local delicacy of the city of Baracoa in eastern Cuba. Wrapped in a cone-shaped palm leaf (hence the name: cucurucho - Spanish for cone or cornet), it is a mix of coconut, sugar and other ingredients such as orange, guava and pineapple. [2] Cucuruchos or cones.
Turrón (Spanish: [tuˈron]), torró (Valencian: [toˈro]) or torrone (Italian: [torˈroːne]) is a Mediterranean nougat confection, typically made of honey, sugar, and egg white, with toasted almonds or other nuts, and usually shaped either into a rectangular tablet or a round cake. Turrón is usually eaten as a dessert food around Christmas ...
Rice pudding. Rice pudding is a dish made from rice mixed with water or milk and commonly other ingredients such as sweeteners, spices, flavourings and sometimes eggs. Variants are used for either desserts or dinners. When used as a dessert, it is commonly combined with a sweetener such as sugar.